...Lucian W. Pye Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya. A Survey of the Triad Society from 1800 to 1900 . By L. F. Comber, B.A., F.R.A.S. , Locust Valley, New York : J. J. Augustin Inc. , 1959 . Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies VI. viii, 324 . Appendices, Illustrations, Maps...

...Christopher M. Dent Abstract The economic relationship between East Asia and the European Union (EU) has been the subject of increasing academic attention. This has been heightened by politico-institutional endeavors to strengthen the weak link in the “Triad” (Europe, East Asia, North America...

... or in opposition, but rather “a party in a triad survives or becomes meaningful only insofar as it can be relevant to the other two” (p. 11). The triads Bulag explores in this thoughtful work are a series of shifting, contingent relations that seek to show relevance. The triad may be an external one, Mongolians...

..., including the role of the Chinese Six Companies, hui-kuans, and Triads (who are described as prorevolutionary). She attempts to show the interaction between these organizations and the newly-established political parties, and discusses the evolving changes in political position of the various leaders...

... on personal reciprocity to those based on market mechanisms and impersonal economic exchange. His purpose, it now seems, is to place this transformation in the context of rural Thai symbolic structure. In part 2, "A Theoretical Framework," Tomosugi constructs a double triad to explain how rural Thai society...

... University Press, 1970. xiii, 397 pp. Bibliography, Index, $22.00. The quest for a key to unlock the Indian conception(s) of divinity is a recurring one. The most recent attempt to accomplish this task is The Indian Theogony by Sukumari Bhattacharji. The "key" for Bhattacharji is the "Neo-Brahmanical Triad...

... years of liaison with the Triads and others of their ilk ? One possible answer is that Sun himself was hypnotized as much politically as he was spiritually by the activist and often genuinely heroic character of the traditional underworld figure. As Lucien Bianco has so forcefully put it: Journaliers...

... THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY as the Triads, the Society of Heaven and Earth, or by other names. A group of Triad rebels held the walled city of Shanghai between September 7, 1853, and February 17, 1855, causing a state of affairs that eventually brought about the creation of the China Maritime Customs...

... University Press, 1994. 88 halftones, 5 maps, 268 pp. $39-50 (cloth). This volume is an ambitious study by Donald F. McCallum on a little-known temple and its main icon. Zenkoji, a Pure Land Buddhist temple located in Nagano, flourished in the medieval age; and the icon, Zenkoji Amida Triad, represents...

... with Sun Yat-sen in his Republican revolution. Most of the contributors to this volume place organizations known as Triads or Tiandihui (Heaven and Earth Society) in a continuum of nonelite social and economic organizations (which also included brotherhoods, hui, and kongsi) that, along with familiar elite...

... conception(s) of divinity is a recurring one. The most recent attempt to accomplish this task is The Indian Theogony by Sukumari Bhattacharji. The "key" for Bhattacharji is the "Neo-Brahmanical Triad" (pp. 351-63). She claims to have "traced how the myriads of gods in the Vedic pantheon gradually converged...

... shops, symbolizes self-governance, justice, and moral authority. Kwan Kung is a martial god traditionally worshipped by both police and Triads in Hong Kong, and it represents loyalty, courage, and more importantly justice, all in a militant sense and traditionally associated with masculinity...

... in the medieval age; and the icon, Zenkoji Amida Triad, represents a special style of a group of Buddhist sculptures in the history of Japanese Buddhist art. By focusing on the topic, McCallum attempts to contribute not only to Japanese religious art, but also to history, society, and human experience. In fact...

... numerous other triads part of which are, he says, of an artificial or even puerile character.4 Now, it is true that occurrences of triads of an almost unlimited variety of beings or objects are, in the ancient Indian literature, extremely numerous, but there is very little evidence to suggest that it has...

... in Malaya ; Comber L. , “ Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya: An Introduction ,” JMBRAS , XXIX , Pt. I ( 1959 ) , and Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya, A Survey of the Triad Society from 1800 to 1800 ( Locust Valley, N. Y. , 1959 ) ; Wynne M. L. , Triad and Tabut, A Survey...

... . “ Some Account of a Secret Association in China, entitled the Triad Society. ” Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1 , part 2: 240 –50. Morgan W. P. 1960 . Triad Societies in Hong Kong. Hong Kong : n.p . Muramatsu Yuji. 1960 . “Some Themes...

... they depict. It is organized in a traditional manner, patterned on the trimiirti, but emended so as to provide a significant place for the Goddess, whose importance Vitsaxis evidently considers to supplant that of Brahma in the actual worship of the divine triad. Vitsaxis flirts, in fact, with the notion...

... for the Goddess, whose importance Vitsaxis evidently considers to supplant that of Brahma in the actual worship of the divine triad. Vitsaxis flirts, in fact, with the notion that there is a generic preference for triads in Indian religion. Still, he rarely lets theoretical speculations such as this, many...

.... 127) based on the link among the members of the triad that constitute cosmology, that is, the concept of humaneness, investigation of nature, and the practical aspects of what is empirically observed. For Kaibara, humaneness based on care and reverence in human relations should also be extended...